Still Working...

Feeling Good

We have been working really hard this week.  Today I upped my hydroxycut to 2 pills two times a day.  I didn't go to the gym this morning but hopefully I will be going tonight with Jim.  Last night I was really proud of myself because instead of dessert or more food I drank a huge thing of flavored water before bed.  All I ate yesterday was a fruit yogurt smoothie... a chef salad with vinigar olive oil dressing and a bowl of cereal.  I didn't really feel that hungary tho.  So that was good.  Tomorrow is my weigh in day.  I hope I lost something!!  I doubt it will be much tho because I just started my period today.  So if not, the loss should show up next week.

I hate boys

I began back at the gym last Monday, Sept. 22nd.  I worked out three days, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.  I tried to eat healthier but didn't do a great job.  On Friday I weighed in and didn't see much of a difference.  I took the weekend off and on Monday headed back to the gym.  This past weekend Jim and I bought some Hydroxycut Hardcore from GNC... I'm not usually into diet pills and I don't have high expectations for these but they are supposed to complement a good exercise and diet by giving you more energy and helping burn fat so I'll try them.  The best part about them was that they encouraged Jim to get started on dieting and working out.  I think spending the money and being excited about the pills really jump started his motivation.  Which makes me very happy to have a partner. 

I am using my Nike + a lot at the gym and its great.  Its so cool to look back and see my progress.  I think I am doing a nice mix of cardio and weights.  Plus I have doing different cardio machines each day.  Lots of running but sometimes I do the elliptical machine or that other stair stepper type machine.  I'll even ride the bike.  So thats cool.  Work has been stressful lately but going to the gym has seemed to help me.  And overall I'm just working at keeping a more positive attitude about things.  I weighed myself this morning without much results of course my weigh-in day isn't until Friday.  Jim lost like 3 lbs in one day which is the title of my post I hate boys lol. 

His goal is to get down to 200 lbs.  Thats about a 70-lbs for him to lose.  My 1st goal is to get to my healthy weight of 145 which is about 20 lbs away and then finally to 125 losing 40lbs all together.  I know Jim will lose it quicker and thats ok.  He has farther to go.  If I lose 2lbs a week I will be happy and be at my goal before I know it!  :)  I posted my measurements today and took before pictures last night.  YUCK!!!!

** a couple more thoughts **

Hydroxycut makes you poop more and its red.  I love smoothies for breakfast in the morning.  Jim has a lot more energy and is super talkative.  I need to drink more water. 

Monday Monday!

So I kinda went off plan over the weekend.  Any by off plan I mean I don't know how far I went off plan or how good or bad I did because I wasn't counting.  I did weigh more this morning so I would guess that means I did bad!  Oh well start again today.  Got a short week at work this week.  Planning to take Thursday and Friday off.  My mom is up camping this week so I am going to go up there for the day on Thursday and then Friday Jim and I will be heading up to Wellsley Island and Alexandria Bay for the weekend.  Should be a good time.  I'm really looking forward to it.  So... gotta do good with eating and gym this week.  Heading back there tonight.

Oatmeal - 3pts - 19/36
Turkey Sandwich on bagel - 6pts? - 13/36

T.O.M.

So I started my little friend today.  Not fun.  My tummy hurts.  And I'm bound to be super hungry.  I'm really trying to encourage myself to go to the gym tonight (I want to go I want to go) because I know I should potentially feel better cramps wise if I go.  Plus I haven't gone in two days now so I'm due.  The scale has been pretty kind to me so far tho so thats good.  My official weigh in is tomorrow morning.  Last night I went out to dinner and not really sure how many points I ate.  I tried to be good but its hard.  Eating out is just hard in general.  This weekend will be hard too because I might go visit my mom at camp and I'm probably going to a house warming party for Andy.  I should try not to drink anything since there is alot of calories in that too.  Dieting sucks but being skinny and feeling good rocks!!

Water 63oz
Salad and salad dressing - 4pts - 18/31
Apple - 1pt - 17/31
Pizza - ? - 0/31
Popcorn - ? - 0/31
 

Is it Friday Yet???

Oh my goodness!  Today has been so stressful!!  Everytime I turn around there are 2 or more people standing at my desk trying to talk to me and the phone is ringing too.  Ahhhhh!!  The training fund people (georges) are driving me nuts!  I shouldn't even be doing their work.  I'm really overwhelmed and it sucks.  It's even harder to diet on days like this.  Luckily I've done pretty good so far so hopefully I will be able to stay on track tonight when I go to visit with Larisa.  We are going out to dinner but I don't know where... so that might be a bit tricky.  

Last night I was hungry... well kind of hungry.  But more than anything I just wanted to eat.  But it was late, and I had already eaten all my points so I drank a couple huge glasses of water to fill my tummy up and felt much better.  I'd like to get a big drink bottle to drink out of when I am on the computer but I know that is one place that always makes me want to eat. 

33oz Water
1 Diet Pepsi
Weight Control Oatmeal - 3pts - 19/31
Soup - 6pts - 13/31
Turkey Sandwich & French Fries - ?pts - 0/31
 

Day 2

So today I haven't been keeping track of my food as good as I should have.  Annnnddd... I didn't go exercising either.  Not very good for only my second day.  It's just that Jim and I are so busy trying to set up our new apartment there were some things that are hanging over our heads we just really wanted to get done.  I would say we accomplished most of what we wanted to do today.  Still some more to do.  Here is my food let's see if I can recall.

Water 33oz plus extra not sure
Salad and Salad Dressing - 4pts - 18/31
Chickpeas - 2pts - 16/31
Small Piece of Cake - 5pts - 11/31
Half pizza quesadilla - 6pts - 5/31
Pepperoni - 2pts - 3/31
Broccoli with parm cheese - 2pts - 1/31

Close enough... I like to keep a little wiggle room for anything I might have calculated incorrectly.

Hardcore

Today I start my diet and exercise routine again.... Hardcore.  I was doing so great for a while and then I met Justin and things slowed down and then went off track.  For a long time I just maintained and there were a few times I tried to start back up again to no avail.  Now it's almost a year gone by.  I have gained back about 15lbs or so but thankfully I am still almost 25lbs under my heaviest weight.  I am so happy to start a program now before I put on anymore weight.  Jim and I will be going to the gym 5 days a week... Mon-Friday and taking the weekends off.  On the weekends I still plan to do fun things like rollerblading, biking, tennis, walks, etc.  I am also going back on to weight watchers although I will not be attending meetings this time around.  Too expensive!  Instead I will use the books and points trackers I already have and keep a log here on this website.  Something easy to access from work and from home.  Plus it gives me a little space to write down some of my feelings and track my progress.  I will weigh in on Fridays and start my points over on that day as well.  Here we go!  I am really so excited to do this.  With Jim's help and weight training added into my workouts I am excited to see the results I will get.  Better than ever!!

Weekly Points Allowence - 22/35

Oatmeal - 3 pts  -  19/35
Salad and Dressing - 4 pts - 15/35
Banana - 2pts - 13/35
Red Bull - 2pts - 11/35
Apple Jacks - 5pts - 6/35
Milk - 3pts - 3/35
Bagel - 4pts - 0/34
Cream Cheese - 3pts - 0/31

33oz of Water
1 Diet Pepsi

Exercise
Ran for 15 min and Walked for 5 - 1.5mi
Weight Training

How Time Flies!!

Well here I am posting again 1 whole YEAR from the last time that I posted.  Haha more than that really.  Wow.  So how about an update??

So in Janurary 2007 Carmen and I broke up after 2.5 years.  I moved out of the house I was sharing with him and started a new life all on my own.  I recomitted to weightloss and to getting where I know that I need to go.  At that time I weighed 186, an all time high.  At the end of March I joined a running group training to run a 5K in only 10 weeks.  Through running alone I lost 7lbs and really toned my body.  I ran my 5K in June in approx 37 minutes.  And joined a second running group and began weightwatchers in June.  Now here we are in August.  I have lost a total of 25lbs, 18lbs officially on weight watchers.  I feel great!!  My clothes fit me so much better now... I've shrunk two pant sizes and even have bought some medium shirts.  I'd still like to lost another 15lbs at least so for now that is going to be my goal.  I have gotten so many comments on the way that I look.  It just feels really good.  The 2nd running group has been more difficult than the first and I have made less progress.  I took two weeks off but now I am back on the horse and plugging along to get to my goal.  My race is in two weeks on Sept 8th!!  This week I am getting back into a workout routine that I have been slacking on mostly because of my new boyfriend!  Things have been going really well for me things have been falling into place this summer and I'm very happy.  If I can only figure out my job and what I really want to do I would be much better off.  The ball is rolling however, hopefully something will work out.  Until then I am going to keep eating healthy and OP for WW and exercising!  YAY!

Doctor Appointment and Math

Today I went to the doctors.  (lost 1lb since last week... Small victory there!) :o)  I spoke to him about my weigh since that is the only thing physically that I am concerned about.  I told him that my father had diabetes so I know how important it is for me to keep my weight and health in check.  He spoke to me about baseline weight and how you get that from your parents.  And since both of my parents are bigger that is why I am big and I will struggle with it for my whole life.  The only thing that will change it he said is exercise.  He also taught me something neat about calories.  I guess in order to lose 1 pound you need to burn 3,500 calories.  So that means in order to get down to 140.... probably a good weight for me.  I need to lose 38lbs and to do that I need to burn 133,000 calories through diet and exercise.  He also said that to stay the weight you are you need to eat calories equal to 10x your weight... so if you want to lose weight you should eat calories 10x the weight you want to be.  I should be eating 1400 calories a day.  I think I would be satisfied with that.  If I jump down to 1400 calories a day I will be burning 300 calories a day.  In 3 months that will help me to lose about 7 or 8 lbs.  Thats a pretty slow loss... we are talking only half a pound a week.  BUT if I also exercise and burn 600 calories every other day... Thats another 7 lbs there too... so the combination of the two would equal 54,000 calories or 15 lbs.  I certaintly would take 15lbs in 3 months!  Geez I would be down to 163 by Thanksgiving and 148 by Valentines and at my goal by next Spring!!  Either way my goal is to burn 133,000 calories anyway I can.  Let's start counting!!

Don't you love how some people can turn ANYTHING into a game of numbers?  LOL